Shin chan VS upin & ipin

VS

have you heard about shin chan, a cartoon series on NTV 7?? Shin chan is a funny little boy character age around 5-6 years old. what wrong with this little cute boy?? i can say that there is elements of discrimination and manipulation toward women. in this animation movie, his mother, Misaie is being portrayed as a hot-temped mother, clumsy, shopaholic and violence mother but his father is vice versa. she always slap her child and her husband because of small tiny thing. besides, shin chan always looking and behave inappropriately in front of young, beautiful and sexy women. furthermore, many of the jokes in the Shin-chan's cartoon occasionally weird, unnatural and inappropriate use of language as well as from his inappropriate behavior. In Malaysia Shin chan's comic is titled as Dik Cerdas. Like in South Korea, pictures revealing Shin-chan's genitals were all censored by cutting the scenes. in japan, most Japanese said that this anime series is violence and parent didn't allow their children to watch this anime because of shin chan's inappropriate behaviour. even this is only an anime series, and it may look stu*id when all this things, i believe some of you would agree with me. maybe i'm too sensitive, but ... Frankly speaking, shin chan is not a good anime series that our generation should being exposed. maybe it is okay for teenagers or adult to watch this series, but not the young generation. it will give negative effects on their perception, mind as well as their behaviour.

as an alternative, we can watch upin & ipin series which it good and heavy with moral value. furthermore, it is a Malaysia product and we should support it. it is full of islamic value and suitable with our culture. it's graphic technology and messages show that Malaysia also can produce a good quality product.

*quality is better than quantity.

The Net

i just watch a movie title 'The Net' which is all about the usage and the impact of computer-mediated communication which is directed by Irwin Winkler. Sandra Bullock plays a major role in this movie as Angela Bennett, a computer expert work in Cathedral System. She played as a young, beautiful and intelligent carrier woman who has her own lifestyle. She worked from home and never mixes up with other fellow people around her. In this movie, her introverted character brings a big trouble for her. Besides communicating with her cyber friends in virtual world and her mom, the only person that she communicates with is Dale Hessman (played by Ray McKinnon), her colleagues. They work together for a new internet program, The Gatekeeper System which able to hack highly confidential computer system such as government and military by clicks π at the lower- right corner. However, Dale was died in a plane crashes and Angela met with another computer expert, Jack Devlin (Jeremy Northam) in her trips in Mexico. Same as Dale, Angela was nearly killed by the guy that she met because of the diskette that contained the internet program. She managed to escape but the situation become worst because she found that her identity was change by somebody. She is no longer Angela, but Ruth Marx, a drug dealer. This is the climax of this movie where she has to find a proof that she is Angela because all of her document was stolen.

As she didn’t communicate with people around her and work from home, nobody can recognize her and her mother (Diane Baker) was suffering from Alzheimer. Thus, the only person that can proof her identity is her former lover, Dr. Alan Champion acted by Dennis Miller. In the process to get back her identity and to get the hackers behind the bars, Alan was killed. Thus, there is no one left to help her. Therefore, she works on her own by trying to enter the Cathedral System and find the information about the hackers. She found out that the real Ruth Marx acted by Wendy Gazelle is using her identity. The hackers, Ruth and Jack, the guy she met in Mexico plan to install their own Gatekeeper software to the government and military computer system. However, Angela makes a trick by using fire alarm and manages to copy all the evidence of the hackers plan in the diskette and hand it to FBI through email. When everything is done, the hackers arrive and click the button escape to delete what Angela done. However, this brilliant Angela releases a virus: Trojan horse by clicking the button escape that able to delete the entire file in the computer system. She manages to escape from the hackers and Jack accidentally killed the real Ruth because he thought that she is Angela. At the end of the movie, Angela killed Jack and based on the evidence she gets her life back and lives with her mom.

In the nutshell, I can say that this movie is an interesting movie that highlight on the usage of the usage and the impact of computer-mediated communication. In addition, this movie also emphasize that nobody cannot lives alone. We need each other and that is why the interpersonal relationship is important. the best part of this movie is when the director emphasize on the capability of a young woman. this movie didn't underestimate woman as other movie did. it shows that women are capable and multitasking.